Clap 004 Definitive preliminary design: The museum takes shape
In June 2025, the museum reaches a new milestone: from the Avant-Projet Sommaire (APS) to the Avant-Projet Définitif (APD). According to the dictionary, we’ve gone from a “summary” project (concise, quick, summary, schematic) to a “definitive” project (final, firm, fixed, ultimate). There’s still a long way to go, but the definitive preliminary project takes us […]
CLAP 003 FREEZE FRAME
A museum of captivity: what for? A sensitive subject if ever there was one, on both the German and French sides, we decided to do this “freeze frame” to take a step back and answer the question that many people may be asking. Fabien Théofilakis, head of the scientific committee, summarizes three points of entry: […]
Forgotten D-Day Story: The Foucarville German Prison Camp – Episode 1
France 3 Normandie – June 2025.
Forgotten D-Day Story: The Foucarville German Prison Camp – Episode 2
France 3 Normandie – June 2025.
Forgotten D-Day Story: The Foucarville German Prison Camp – Episode 3
France 3 Normandie – June 2025.
Forgotten D-Day Story: The Foucarville German Prison Camp – Episode 4
France 3 Normandie – June 2025.
From 1944 to 1947, there was a camp for 60,000 German prisoners in this Manche village.
Article published in Ouest France on 7/06/2025. Foucarville, a village located between Utah Beach and Sainte-Mère-Église was, after the war, the most densely populated commune in La Manche. Up to 60,000 German prisoners lived there in a town made of of barracks and tents. Perhaps it was here, in Foucarville, a stone’s throw from Utah […]
Clap 002 – Preliminary design (APS)
Every architectural project unfolds in a succession of well-defined phases, each with its own contribution to make. After the sketch, the Avant-Projet Sommaire (APS) appears on March 12, 2025…In our case, the APS is an architectural, landscape and scenographic study whose aim is to verify “the realism, feasibility and approximate cost of the project”.Architecturally, the […]
A prisoner-of-war museum on the horizon for 2028 near Sainte-Mère-Eglise
Article published on France Bleu on 20/05/2025. A museum dedicated to prisoners of war is to be built a stone’s throw from Foucarville. This small village housed over 100,000 German prisoners from June 1944 to 1946-1947. The camp was run by an American lieutenant-colonel, Warren J. Kennedy. It’s a little-known story in the Cotentin region. […]
Five bread ovens for 60,000 men
CCPWE 19 covered more than 100 hectares between Foucarville and Ravenoville. From 15,000 at the end of November 1944, the prisoners reached 60,000 less than six months later. After several days’ train travel, most of them arrived exhausted, hungry and dehydrated in successive waves of up to 10,000 men. 60,000 prisoners in a small village […]